Plays for Young People (12-18 years)

A contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's extraordinary fairytale of dance, desire and destruction.

A play about protest, power and protecting yourself. Part of the 2015 National Theatre Connections Festival.

Mischievously adapted from Roald Dahl's story, acclaimed playwright Enda Walsh turns The Twits upside down and brings this revolting revolution to the stage.

A fast-paced, mesmerising stage version of the prize-winning YA verse novel about a young woman beginning to take control of her life. Edition includes a range of teaching materials and resources.

A play exporing the apparent gulf between the young and old, commissioned as part of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival.

A touching and provocative story of first love though the eyes of a gender-curious teen, inspired by recent UK cases of 'gender fraud'.

A thrillingly fast-paced play about youthful disaffection, protest and violence, drawing on the history of the Scuttlers, the youth gangs of nineteenth-century Manchester.

A play about growing up, and forging your own identity. Part of Platform, a series of big-cast plays with predominantly or all-female casts, written specifically for performance by school, college and youth-theatre groups.

 An adaptation for the stage of Jacqueline Wilson's popular novel.

A faithful yet inventive adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, terrifically actable and readable.

An enchanting collection of witty music and skits about the Bard, devised for and first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A surreal, dreamlike and hilarious play exploring the pressures and transformations that happen to teenagers as they grow up. In the Multiplay Drama series.